Broadcaster Achala Sharma is in conversation with Dr Vinay Kumar, one of the leading psychiatrists in India, about his collection of Hindi poems ‘Yakshini’, named after a statue made of sandstone of female deity and spirit dated to the 3rd century BCE.

‘The day I looked at the famous Deedar Ganj’s Yakshini in a museum, little did I know that my life was going to change for ever. I could go back to my subconscious mind, draw imagery and inspiration and put it on a piece of paper in the form of poetry’, says Dr. Vinay Kumar in this 30th episode of Cine Ink podcast series about books ‘Kitaab Kaulum’.

Yakshini, published by Rajkamal Prakashan, is Vinay Kumar’s fourth book of Hindi poetry, including acclaimed ‘Qarz e Tehzeeb’ and ‘Mall Mein Kabootar’.

A former Secretary and Vice President of the India Psychiatric Society, Dr. Kumar has recently been elected as the President of the society and has published several research papers and two books on psychiatry related subjects.

He is the founder of Manoved Mind Hospital in Patna, Bihar.